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Amami Oshima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (101 words) |
 | Amami Ōshima is one of the Ryukyu Islands (also known as Nansei Islands). |
| Lying roughly two-thirds of the way north of the island chain, it is part of Kagoshima Prefecture, in the Kyūshū region of Japan. |
| The Amami dialect is part of the Ryukyuan languages group. |
| Amami Rabbit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (350 words) |
| The Amami Rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi), or Amami no Kuro Usagi (奄美の黒兔/アマミノクロウサギ), also known as the Ryukyu Rabbit, is a primitive dark-furred rabbit which is only found in Amami Oshima and Toku-no-Shima, two small islands between southern Kyushu and Okinawa in Kagoshima Prefecture (but actually closer to Okinawa) in Japan. |
| Often called a living fossil, the Amami Rabbit is a living remnant of ancient rabbits that once lived on the Asian mainland, where they died out, remaining only on the two small islands where they survive today. |
| Amami Rabbits are also noted for making calling noises, which sound something like the call of a pika; this makes them unique as most rabbits cannot make calling noises. |
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